The Tenors Mistake

  The Canadian Tenors sang at the MLB All-Star game last night in San Diego. These are four very talented men from British Columbia who could do our national anthem justice. But they didn't.

  During his solo, Remigio Pereira decided to change the words. Instead of " With glowing hearts we see thee rise. The true north strong and free." he went with " We're all brothers and sisters. All lives matter to the great." What the hell??

   This isn't Mony Mony by Billy Idol. This is the national anthem of a country! MY country. To prove a point. A point that he obviously had no clue about.

  Mr. Pereira: First...you thought you were helping a cause. You in fact did the opposite. The Black Lives Matter movement is to highlight the disproportionate amount of blacks who are killed in general and by the police. It is not about white people feeling left out and uncomfortable. Or all of us standing together in unity because all lives matter. 

  Second...how could you possibly think that changing the national anthem of your country would help that cause? Didn't it occur to you that perhaps the people of Canada might be divided by your lack of respect? Or that you would come off looking like an insensitive, self-serving jerk? 

  Celebrities need to think before they act. They have a huge audience and more influence than they realize.

  Ang